Bereft

orbatus

'bereft'

So a couple of weeks ago I went to visit my sister in Pennsylvania. Her digs there are awesome - absolutely 100% fabulous. She lives out in rural Central PA hill country, and to get to or from her house you have to go up and down these steep, winding, contorted roads. Absolutely fabulous. There are hidden treasures everywhere; we'd be driving along and all of a sudden would happen on homes that had been there since before the Civil War (she was married in a Revolutionary War era mansion that's not far from where she lives now). You just don't find things like that around Chicago! We found this old abandoned house on the first day of my visit, as she was driving us home from the train station in Harrisburg. She said that it's been abandoned for a while, and the roof and other wood structures were destroyed by fire a few years back - she remembers the fire; they had the road all blocked up when they were putting it out. It's for sale now. I hope whoever buys it does so for the house as much as the surrounding property - perhaps there's something worth salvaging there. There were signs on the doors advising against trespassers, and all the ground level windows were boarded up, so entry wouldn't have been easy. Rest assured, if my ankle hadn't been sprained at the time and the size of a balloon (I had a hard time just walking around it and getting the photos that I did), I'd have found a way in, and there'd be some excellent photos of the full moon through some of those blasted out windows. But alas, that wasn't to be. Oh well, things to look forward to on future visits!

oculus nitens

'bright eye'

trajectory

vesperascit

'evening descends'

hebite luce

'as the light dies down'

iuxta marginem

'on the verge'

casus

'falling'

relinctus

'abandoned'

primus lapis

'cornerstone'

incrementum

'growth'